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Video: How To Open A Bottle Of Wine With Your Shoe

RunPee - The Best Time To Take A Pee During A Movie

RunPee lets you know the best time to nip out for a pee whilst watching a movie. (Includes the latest movies)

Video: Merlin Mann on Maximising Your Time

A 35-minute presentation by Merlin Mann on time management and productivity.

There are some great tips in this presentation in particular using email subject lines better. I'm going to make it my mission to improve my subject lines as I put absolutely no effort into subject lines, especially when having a conversation via email. [via]

7 Tech Cheat Sheets

7 cheat sheets in PDF format for Google, Windows, Mac OSX, Firefox, Gmail and Google Reader. The Google reader one was very useful, I didn't realise that you could view your feeds as a list.

75 Skills Every Man Should Master

75 skills every man should know including how to take a photo (I think I'm halfway there), swimming three different strokes (yep, although I haven't stepped in a pool since I was about 12), speak a foreign language (bore da?) and describe a glass of wine in one sentence without using the terms nutty, fruity, oaky, finish, or kick (all I can come up with is good, alright, bad. Same for beer)

Related: 25 Things All Women Should Learn To Do Already

101 Handy Conversion Tools

101 tools to convert video, music, images, PDFs and more. Media Convert looks like a great tool for converting video (as well as tons of other types of file) and can even convert video for my N800.

Video: How To Untangle Headphones

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You may want to wash them after untangling.

How to Use Chopsticks in Seven Easy Steps

A step-by-step guide to using chopsticks. Give me a fork any day. [via]

How To Criticise People Without Causing Offence

Lifehack's guide on how to criticise someone without causing offence.

200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity

Smashing Magazine has a huge list of keyboard shortcuts for popular applications such as browsers and mail clients. You'll probably know most of them but there are probably a few that you have forgotten about.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Top Web Services

Mashable has compiled a list of keyboard shortcuts for popular web services such as GMail, Google Reader and Wikipedia.

Nine Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Wikipedia

9 cool ways of using Wikipedia.

Top 20 Magic Trick Tutorials

Video tutorials on how to do 20 different magic tricks.

23 Ways To Download YouTube Videos

Mashable reviews 23 different websites and applications that help you download videos from YouTube.

How Cousins Work

A handy chart that explains just what '2nd cousin twice removed' means. [via]

Upgrading Your iPod's Hard Drive

Command Tab has a guide on how to upgrade your iPod's Hard Drive. It's fairly detailed but could have done with a lot more photos of actually taking the iPod apart and replacing the hard drive. Still, it's useful for those looking to upgrade an old iPod. [via]

Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million

Bono's Red campaign has raked in $18 million for good causes since launching last year and whilst this figure may seem a lot, it's meager when compared to the $100 million it is estimated to have cost to promote the campaign.

Julie Cordua, VP-marketing at Red defended the spending. "It's not a charity program of them writing a one-time check. It has to make good business sense for the company so the money will continue to flow to the Global Fund over time."

But Ben Davis, creative director at Word Picture Ideas and co-creator of Red parody site, buylesscrap.org said, "The Red campaign proposes consumption as the cure to the world's evils," said Ben Davis, creative director at Word Pictures Ideas, co-creator of the site. "Can't we just focus on the real solution -- giving money?"

25 Tips For Better Sleep

25 tips for ensuring that you get a good night's sleep.

How To Sound More Intelligent

Lifehacker has posted some tips on how to sound more intelligent when talking.

Video: How To Peel An Egg

A very different way of peeling an egg. [via]

How To Cope With Jetlag

33 tips for coping with jetlag.

Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Steve Rubel's guide to turning Gmail into your personal nerve centre. It covers turning Gmail into a massive personal database, getting real-time news updates within Gmail, automatically storing your bookmarks and managing Calendar and To-Dos.

Video: How To Escape From Handcuffs

A step-by-step guide to escaping from handcuffs.

Life Coaches Blog's Guide To Giving A Good Compliment

A small guide on how to give a good compliment. [via]

Fast And Easy Headphone Cord Wrapping

Lifehacker has posted a video of how to wrap up your headphones when you are not using them so that they don't become tangled.

The Best Place To Hide Money

A burglar reveals the best place to hide your money. The answer is obvious but he does reveal a few tips on minimising the damage that a burglar could cause. [via]

PriceProtectr

"Ever buy stuff from stores that offer a 30 day price protection guarantee? If they lower their price within 30 days of when you purchased it, they'll refund you the difference. Sounds great... except how often do you remember to the check price again? "

PriceProtectr aims to help you save money by monitoring the products that you have bought. If the price drops within 30 days PriceProtectr will send you a notification so that you can go and get your money back. [via]

NowNow

NowNow.com is a new answer service from Amazon. Enter a question and Mechanical Turks will quickly reply via email with 3 answers. I wanted to test the service but it's invite only at the moment. [via]

Hassle Me

If you haven't already broken your New Year's resolutions, Hassle Me could be a tool to help you keep them. The site allows you to set up 'hassles' that will remind you at set periods of time via email. [via]

How To Make And Keep New Year’s Resolutions

How to make and keep New Year’s resolutions (if you haven't broken them already). [via]

How To: Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Useless information that you may need one day. [via]

ISBNSpy

ISBNSpy is a handy little website that will compare prices of products on Amazon based on the ISBN that you provide. The site is lightweight so is suitable for mobile phones. Very handy for seeing if that book or DVD in a sale really is a good bargain.

Sizeasy

Sizeasy allows you to compare objects to real-life items which is useful when purchasing new products. The image above shows the new iPod Shuffle against a matchbox and a credit card. [via]

Video: How To Wetshave

Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, and YouTube in particular, here's a step-by-step guide to getting the perfect wetshave. Personally I have used an electric shaver for many years due to my lack of wetshaving skills but you never get the same results as you do with a wetshave. A guide like this is just what I need. [via]

50 Common Interview Questions & Answers

50 common interview questions and how to answer them. [via]

GetHuman

We all know how difficult it is to get through to a human when calling a company. There are endless loops of press this number or say this. Thankfully someone has compiled a list of companies and the quickest way of getting through to them. This database will be handy to US customers but we need one for the UK. Does anyone know of a UK equivalent?

WorkFriendly

WorkFriendly lets you browse websites in work by making them look like Word documents. [via]

Video: How To Fold A T-Shirt

A handy guide on how to neatly fold a t-shirt. This guide is much easier to follow than the Chinese (or Japanese) one that did the rounds a few years back.

How To Win At Monopoly

Tips on how to win at Monopoly. The guide is for the US version of Monopoly but I think that it aplies to all other versions. [via]

How Much Water Do You Use?

Whilst sweltering in this blistering heatwave we're having, it would probably be a good time to see how you can conserver water. The BBC have put together a helpful tool that will estimate how much water you use in a day.

Password Advice

A word of warning - try not to use the same password for different accounts. My brother found out the hard way that using the same password on account can make it easier for hackers to gain access to more than one of your accounts.

He came back from holiday to discover that some guy in Pakistan had somehow gained access to his PayPal account and sent £1,200 worth of phones to himself. And as my brother used the same password to access his email as he did his PayPal account it was easy for the hacker to take over his email account. A call to his ISP revealed that the hacker had added a forwarding address and was forwarding all emails onto a Hotmail account.

Thankfully he should get all the money returned to him but it was an eye-opener for him and he is now starting to use different passwords for his accounts. If you want an easy way of generating passwords, Hashapass can generate strong passwords based on a master password and a parameter.

Solve Sudoku (Without Even Thinking!)

A step-by-step guide to solving Sudoku without thinking. Not being a Sudoku player, I'm not sure if this process of elimination method is easier than actually solving the puzzle the regular way. [via]

How To Solve Sudoku Puzles

A helpful guide to solving Sudoku puzzles using a medium puzzle as a guide. I've always been meaning to learn Sudoku but have never got around to it... plus I'm crap with numbers! [via]

How To Open A Bottle Of Beer The Scandinavian Way

How to open a bottle of beer using another bootle of beer. [via]

Firefox Cheat Sheet

Keyboard shortcuts and tips for Firefox. There were a few shortcuts that were new to me or I'd forgotten.

Mount Box.net Account In Windows Explorer

If you have a Box.net account it can be a pain having to visit their website each time you want to upload/download files. Here's a step-by-step guide to mounting your account in Windows Explorer.

How To Win An Argument

"If someone starts yelling to get their point across, don't respond -- just let them go on and on. Remain so silent that they eventually start wondering if you are even listening.

It doesn't matter what the issue was, you will have won the argument." [via]

Free iPod Book 2.0

Came across this site today which offers a free iPod book for download. The book has tons of information about accessories, tips, stats, iTunes help and links.

Write Good Emails

Tips on how to write good emails. [via]

Open A Beer WIth A Lighter

Haven't got a bottle opener? Try a lighter. Instructions here. [via]